eel

anguille

Poisson au corps long et fin comme un serpent, souvent présent dans les rivières.

En anglais simple : A long, thin fish with a body like a snake, often found in rivers.

• An eel swam under the boat.
• They caught three eels in the river.
• The eel slipped out of his hands.

Expressions courantes : freshwater eel, catch an eel, eel fishing

anguille électrique, gymnote

Long poisson d’Amérique du Sud qui produit de l’électricité pour attraper ses proies et se défendre.

En anglais simple : A long South American fish that produces electricity to catch food and defend itself.

• An electric eel can give a powerful shock.
• The aquarium keeps an eel in a separate tank.
• These eels use electricity to find their prey.

Synonymes : electric eel

Expressions courantes : electric eel, eel tank

anguille européenne

Poisson long et fin qui grandit dans les eaux européennes et rejoint l’océan pour se reproduire.

En anglais simple : A kind of long, thin fish that grows in European waters and travels to the ocean to breed.

• The European eel travels far to breed.
• Young eels enter this river from the sea.
• Researchers tracked an eel across the Atlantic.

Synonymes : European eel

Expressions courantes : European eel, silver eel, glass eel

anguille

Personne difficile à attraper ou qui évite de parler franchement.

En anglais simple : Someone or something that is difficult to catch or that avoids being honest or direct.

• That man is a slippery eel.
• The police could never catch that eel.
• She called him an eel because he avoided every question.

Synonymes : slippery customer

Expressions courantes : slippery eel, an eel

pêcher des anguilles

Pêcher des poissons longs et fins qui ressemblent à des serpents.

En anglais simple : To fish for long, thin fish that look like snakes.

• We used to eel at night.
• He eeled along this river as a boy.
• They went eeling with baited traps.

Comment l'utiliser : eel in something (They eel in the river after dark.)

Expressions courantes : eel at night, eel in something

se faufiler, serpenter

Avancer en ondulant souplement, souvent dans un passage étroit.

En anglais simple : To move with smooth, twisting movements, often through a narrow space.

• She eeled through the crowd.
• The cat eeled into the narrow opening.
• He was eeling past the waiting passengers.

Comment l'utiliser : eel through something (He eeled through a gap in the fence.); eel past someone (She eeled past the guards.)

Synonymes : wriggle, snake, slither

Expressions courantes : eel through something, eel into something, eel past someone